Amritsar/Chandigarh: On the last day of Akal Takht’s one-month deadline to incorporate changes in the amended Jaagat Jot Sri Guru Granth Sahib Satkar Act, Punjab govt told the supreme temporal seat of the Sikhs on Wednesday that it will take up with the Centre the enactment of an anti-sacrilege law for the whole of India…
Chandigarh: With factionalism continuing to dog the Punjab Congress ahead of the 2027 assembly elections, AICC Punjab affairs in-charge Bhupesh Baghel will begin a 10-day tour of the state from July 30 to review organisational preparedness, strengthen the party at the grassroots and gauge workers’ feedback.Baghel is expected to use the tour to bridge differences…
Patiala: Punjab ministers on Tuesday inaugurated lift-based canal irrigation projects worth Rs 26.7 crore in Ghanaur assembly constituency, extending canal water to 42 villages and bringing nearly 16,932 acres under assured irrigation.The projects were inaugurated by Punjab water resources minister Barinder Kumar Goyal and Ghanaur MLA Gurlal Ghanaur at Kolhemajra village. The minister said the…
Jalandhar: Alleging that more than 40% of academic posts in the state’s teacher training institutions were lying vacant in Punjab, Congress MLA and former education minister Pargat Singh called it an extremely alarming situation for the state’s education system. He said that the same govt, which made grand claims of bringing about an ‘education revolution’…
Shimla: Chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Wednesday claimed that revenue from the extraction of major and minor minerals in Himachal Pradesh rose by 70% over the past three years, from Rs 200 crore in 2021–22 to Rs 340 crore in 2025–26.Chairing a meeting of the industries department’s mining wing, Sukhu attributed the growth to…
Two university officials were suspended following PhD scholar Jyoti’s death by electrocution CHANDIGARH: A day after a 28-year-old PhD scholar allegedly died of electrocution on the Panjab University campus, the university suspended two engineering officials, while Chandigarh Police registered an FIR for causing death by negligence.The University also announced Rs 16 lakh as financial assistance…
A youth wing non-profit organization of Lions Club, Leo Club Chandigarh Fortune, District 321 F, distributed around 1,000 packets of lassi to daily-wage labourers and roadside workers across the city on Sunday. The drive, titled “Leos Di Gedi”, was the third edition of the initiative. Club members travelled through the city and distributed chilled lassi…
CHANDIGARH: A dramatic scene unfolded during a protest by Akali Dal Waris Punjab De in Chandigarh on Wednesday, when a worker climbed on top of a water cannon vehicle as police used water cannons to disperse the demonstrators.The protest was organised by members of Waris Punjab De demanding the release of its MP Amritpal Singh…
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh high court has held that in polyandrous marriages governed by customary law, the property of a deceased husband is inherited by the surviving brother or brothers and not by the children of the deceased until the earlier generation is no longer alive.The ‘principle of coparcenary’ under Hindu law does not apply to…
Amritsar: Police on Tuesday arrested a 26-year-old man for allegedly calling his 15-year-old niece to his Amritsar house and, with two associates, thrashing her to death over suspicion that she had stolen gold jewellery.The accused, Vineet Kumar alias Sony, was arrested by the Gate Hakima police, who also recovered the stick allegedly used in the…
